The Iranians are trying to come up with new ways and routes to smuggle weapons from Iran to its allies in the Middle East, a source told Fox News in September. Israel has warned about Hezbollah using areas in Beirut to store weapons.https://t.co/urUv3mSPAs— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) December 30, 2018
Syria’s Assad authorizes Iraqi forces to strike IS in Syria
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3716218/posts
This sounds like a positive development to me. The locals figuring out how to fight their own battles.